{"id":4371,"date":"2023-07-21T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=4371"},"modified":"2024-03-30T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T08:58:27","slug":"celebrating-our-2023-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/celebrating-our-2023-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our 2023 Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4384 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/group-photo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Culture and Literature honors our 2023 graduating class! The graduation ceremony took place on 19 July and saw 20 of our students walk across the stage to retrieve their much-deserved diplomas. Highest-ranking AMER student Melis Y\u0131lanc\u0131 represented the department by giving a heartfelt speech thanking her family and AMER faculty for their support over the past four years. AMER faculty member Professor Kara McCormack was proud to be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4375 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/group-selfie1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our spring 2023 graduates include: Deniz Ak\u00e7a, Makbule Aky\u00fcz, Gizem Ayd\u0131n, Esin Deniz Bildirici, Melisa Dalk\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, R\u00fcya G\u00fcven, Buse Selin I\u015flak, Ece Irmak Karabulut, G\u00fcls\u00fcm Ece K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7o\u011flu (honors), Merve Konuk (honors), Cansu Korkmaz, Yasin Mutlu (honors), Burak Nazl\u0131o\u011flu (honors), Aylin Ocako\u011flu, Beg\u00fcm \u00d6zdemir, Do\u011fa \u015eim\u015fek (honors), Yi\u011fit Tarlab\u00f6len (honors), Ahmet Emre T\u00fcrkel, Defne U\u011fur, Melis Y\u0131lanc\u0131 (high honors), Ezgi Y\u0131lmaz, Esma Dil\u015fad Y\u00fczba\u015f\u0131o\u011flu<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in celebrating the achievements of this exceptional group!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Culture and Literature honors our 2023 graduating class!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}